The Brookhaven leader., 1887-11-24

MY DrOtller, your trouble Is not With tllg
heart, it is gastric disorder or rebel
lion Of the liver. You need physician
more than you do clergyman. 1t is not
sin that blots out your hope of heaven,
but bile. 1t not only yellows your cyeball,
and furs your tongue, and makes your
head ache, but swOOps upon your soul in
objections and forebodings. The devil is
after you. lie has failed to despol your
character, and he does the next best
thing for him he rutiles your peace Of
mind. When he says that you arc not a
forgiven soul, when he says that you are
not right with God, when he says that
you will never get to heaven, he lies.
You are just as sure of heaven as though
You were there already. But Satan.
finding that he cannot keep you out of
the promised land of Canaan, has de-
termined that the spies shall not bring
you any Of the Eschol grapes be-
forehand, and that you shall have moth
ing but prickly pear and crab apple. You
are just as good now under the cloud as
YOU were when you were accustomed to
rise i'll the morning at O'Clock TO pray
and sing, "Hallclujah, tits done" Ny
friend, Rev. DR.. Joseph II. Jones, of
Philadelphia, translated spirit now,
wrote a book entitled Man, Moral and
Physical, in which he shows how differ
ent the same thing nay happen to differ
ent people. He says: After the great
battle on the MinciO in 1859, between the
French and Sardinians on the one side
and the Austrians on the other, SO disas-
trous to the latter the defeated army re-
treated. followed by the victors. A
description of the march of each army is
given by two correspondents of The Lon
don Times, one of whom Travelled with
the successful host. the other with the
defeated. The difference in views and
statements of the same place, scenes and
events is remarkable. The former are
said to be marching through beautiful
and luxuriant country during the day,
and at night camping where they are
supplied with an abundance of the best
provisions and all sorts of rural dainties.
There is nothing OF war about the pro
ceediug except its stimulus and excite
ment. On the side of the poor Austrians
it is Just the reverse. In his letter of the
same date, describing the same places
and march over the same road, the
writer can scarcely find words to set
forth the suffering, impatience and dis
gust existing around him. What was
pleasant to the former was intOlerablc to
the latter. What made all this difference:
asks the journalist. One condition only:
The French are victorious: the AustrianS
have been defeated. The contrast may
convey a distinctive idea Of the extent to
which moral impressions affect the eff
cheney of the soldier.
SO. my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been travel
ing a long while, but the difference in
your physical conditions makes it look
different, and therefore the two reports
YOU have given of yourself are as widely
different as the reports i'll The London
Times from the two correspondents.
Edward Payson, sometimes so far up on
the mount that it seemed as if the CEN
tripctal force of earth could no longer
hold him; sometimes, through physical
disorder, was SO far down that it seemed
as if the neither world would clutch him.
Glorious William Cowper was as good as
good could be, and will he loved in the
Christian church as long as it sings his
hymn beginning: There is a Fountain
ming: .Oh, for Closer Walk with God!'
and his hymn beginning: What Various
Hindrances we Meet and his hymn be-
ginning: God Moves in a Mysterious
Way" Yet SO was he overcome of melan-
choly, or black bile, that 1t was only
through the mistake of the cab driver,
who took him to a wrong place, instead
of the river bank, that he did not commit
suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by the physical state, what Il great oppor.
tunity this gives to the Christian ply
sician, for he can feel at the same time
both the pulse of the body and the pulse
of the soul. and he can administer to both
at once, and if medicine is needed he can
give that-an earthly and divine pre-
scription at the same time-and call on
not only the apothecary of earth, but the
! pharmacy Of heaven. All, that is the
kind of doctor want at my bedside when
| get sick, one that cannot only pour out
the right number of drops, but who can
| also pray. That is the kind of doctor have
had in my house when sickness or death
came. do not want any of your protli-
gate or atheistic doctors around my loved
ones when the balances of life are t, en-
bling. A doctor who has gone thr' ugh
the medical college and in disset ting
room has traversed the wonders Of the
human mechanism, and found no God
i'll any of the labyrinths, is fool, and
cannot doctor me or mine. But. oh,
the Christian doctors. What comfort
they have been in many of our house
holds And they ought to have warm
place in our prayers, as well as praise
on our tongues. Dear old DIR. Skill
man! My fathers doctor, my mother s
doctor. in the village home. He car
ried all the condolences of all the
families for ten miles around. We
all felt better as soon as we saw him
enter the house. His face pronounced a
beatitude before he said a word. He well
coined all of us children into life, and he
closed the old peoples eyes when they
entered the last slumber. l think know
what Christ said to him when the old
doctor got through his work. l think he
was greeted with the words: Come i'll,
doctor. / was sick and ye visited me.
bless God that the number of Christian
physicians is multiplying, and some of the
students of the medical colleges are here
today, and l hail you, and l bless you,
and l ordain you to the tender, beautiful,
heaven descended work of a Christian
physician, and when you take YOUR
Diploma from the Long Island Medical
college, to look after the perishable body.
be sure also to get diploma from tho
ok;os to lool, after the imDerishable soul.